mahogany tree

Questions about mahogany tree

What does mahogany tree mean?

mahogany tree means "any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish".

What is another word for mahogany tree?

Close synonyms include mahogany. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mahogany tree a common word?

mahogany tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.